Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/mximzhqd · submitted 1997
Anyone who uses the phrase "easy as taking candy from a baby" has never tried taking candy from a baby.
tiny.ag/avqob1zr · submitted 1997
Blessed are the meek for they shall inhibit the earth.
tiny.ag/lmtj5cfu · submitted 1997
Blessed are those who expect nothing... for they will not be disappointed.
tiny.ag/kbikw1yt · submitted 1997
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
tiny.ag/odgzoipj · submitted 1997
Boob's Law: You always find something in the last place you look.
tiny.ag/tcqireyb · submitted 1997
Boren's Laws: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.
tiny.ag/zmis8rln · submitted 1997
Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
tiny.ag/t9lhndlz · submitted 1997
A winner never quits -- a quitter never wins.
tiny.ag/vpdlcnc4 · submitted 1997
Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.
tiny.ag/6ntlf03d · submitted 1997
No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
tiny.ag/euochyxn · submitted 1997
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Daniel Schorr, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/h5blv72l · submitted 1997
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
tiny.ag/n3oab9iu · submitted 1997
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
tiny.ag/cgb5omnm · submitted 1997
They are able because they think they are able.
tiny.ag/30roecxw · submitted 1997
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
tiny.ag/ghr75dcd · submitted 1997
All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
tiny.ag/vaj63mlc · submitted 1997
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
tiny.ag/5wea9qlk · submitted 1997
If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.
tiny.ag/e2kqoyj7 · submitted 1997
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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